23In all labour there is advantage, And a thing of the lips is only to want.


In Context

20 Even of his neighbour is the poor hated, And those loving the rich are many.

21 Whoso is despising his neighbour sinneth, Whoso is favouring the humble, O his happiness.

22 Do not they err who are devising evil? And kindness and truth are to those devising good,

23 In all labour there is advantage, And a thing of the lips is only to want.

24 The crown of the wise is their wealth, The folly of fools is folly.

25 A true witness is delivering souls, And a deceitful one breatheth out lies.

Proverbs 14:23 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

14:23In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips [tendeth] only to penury.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

14:23All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

14:23In much work there shall be abundance: but where there are many words, there is oftentimes want.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

14:23In all labor there is profit; But the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:23In all labour there is profit; but the talk of the lips tendeth only to want.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

14:23In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:23In all labor there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:23In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

14:23In all labor there is profit: but the talk of the lips tends only to penury.